Mourns Quotes
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And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.
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The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To Spring'.
All weddings are similar but every marriage is different. Death comes to everyone but one mourns alone.
John Peter Berger— 1985 The White Bird,'The Storyteller'.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.
— 1914 'For the Fallen', in The Times, 21 Sep.
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
wilfred owen— 1918 'Insensibility', collected in Poems (published1920).
Call it not vain:they do not err Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
— 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 5, stanza1.
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.Eternity mourns that. ’Tis an ill cureFor life’s worst ills, to have no time to feel them.Where sorrow ’s held intrusive and turned out,There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
henry taylor— Act I, sc. 5.
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young— Line 24. (Night II)
A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.
anna akhmatova— Translated by A.S.Kline
He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just, Shows of the resurrection little trust.
Ben Jonson— XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2.
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
cesare pavese— 1937-11-13
Call it not vain; they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
walter scott— Canto V, stanza 1.
Whoever mourns for Jerusalem will be meritorious and will see its rejoicing and all who do not mourn for Jerusalem will not see it's rejoicing.
— Talmud, Taanit 30b
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
— Sir Henry Taylor, Philip Van Artevelde (1834), Part I, Act I, scene 5.
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 24.
Dreary rosmarye That always mourns the dead.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Flowers, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 682.
Call it not vain: they do not err, Who say that, when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
walter scott— Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) canto V, stanza 1
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
— Sir Henry Taylor, Philip Van Artevelde, Act I, scene 5.
